For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
The other thing being at UCLA was just being in California and around the movie business. Which I honestly believe, and I've… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
I wrote all the time, but the idea of doing it professionally seemed like pie in the sky. Who gets paid to… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
You can win more arguments then you might think as a writer, even though you legally have no recourse, and your script… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
You can just start writing, but you're gonna go off on 10 or 12 starts and weird tangents, and yeah you'll have… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
“To this day I have a profound mistrust of the word processor. I have to type it or write it first, screen… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
Writing is a black-box proposition. You see actors; you can see what they're doing. You can watch the director on set doing… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
Here's what I didn't know when I was starting out that I now know…I thought when you were starting out it was… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
You have to be in California in order to write or direct movies. People say, "Oh, I'm gonna do it from Pittsburgh.… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
It sometimes is better to write in a more directed, focused way when the pages are aimed at something already, a mission… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll have a scene that strikes me, I just feel like writing a scene, a mini-story that seems like it might… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
What I've learned being a writer is to just basically not buckle - not be belligerent, not be angry, not throw fits.… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
People would say, "Well yeah, if I wrote action films, if I wrote the trash that you write, I could make millions… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
The spotlight was on me. I pretended it wasn't, but it was, and for every wrong reason. It was all about money,… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
I felt that in a way, I hated the writing process so much. It's excruciating, as I'm sure you know, and so… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
I'm the kid in school who always, you know, got the straight A's. I got to be that, you know, alpha aggressive… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
Going to UCLA, as far as I'm concerned, afforded me two things. One was the advantage of meeting friends and getting to know a… — Shane Black Copy Share
The only way you can stay on top is to remember to touch bottom and get back to basics. — Shane Black Copy Share
Here's what I didn't know when I was starting out that I now know…I thought when you were starting out it was really hard… — Shane Black Copy Share
I always have humour in my action movies. I think characters that make jokes under fire are more real. It somehow helps put you… — Shane Black Copy Share
For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles. — Shane Black Copy Share
I wanted at one point to act, which is a weird thing for men to want to do. It's a very vain profession. — Shane Black Copy Share
The worst of the action films are the ones where everything is one shout from beginning to finish. And there's no differentiation between beats,… — Shane Black Copy Share
I'm the kid in school who always, you know, got the straight A's. I got to be that, you know, alpha aggressive work-ethic guy.… — Shane Black Copy Share
I felt that in a way, I hated the writing process so much. It's excruciating, as I'm sure you know, and so lonely being… — Shane Black Copy Share
An action movie should, like any other, follow the narrative traditions of literature. That means there should be subtlety, a slow build and a… — Shane Black Copy Share
Once I started selling scripts for a great deal of money - action scripts, no less, which people tend to pooh-pooh anyway - then… — Shane Black Copy Share
When you are making a lot of money people forget you are trying to be creative and they picture you laughing all the way… — Shane Black Copy Share
An action film can have too much action; picture an equaliser on a stereo, with all the knobs pegged at 10. It becomes a… — Shane Black Copy Share
